PLACES AROUND ALASKA
Red
Devil, Alaska in the Fall. I know I've got this photo somewhere else
in here, but it's one of my best.......
Flat, Alaska
and the famous Chicken Mountain where dirt is still bulldozed from the
mountainside and run over sluice boxes to extract a surprising amount of
gold; (no one really knows how much).
Miner's quarters
in Flat, Alaska
Hub Air Service.
Two Cherokee Six-300's, a 235, (not shown), a 180, ( not shown), an old
Geronimo, a Luscombe, (not shown) and a Cub on the ramp in front of our
hangar.
A little
ad I made for Smitty showing our Cherokee Six - 300's.
McGrath
in the midnight sun.
McGrath
in the winter
Winter
meat locker. Refrigeration not required until late Spring.
The village of
Nikolai, Alaska in the Kuskoquim River Valley.
Approaching
Nikolai from the air. The strip was almost a half-mile long.
The village
school teacher made this sign. Note the spelling of International.
All the kids
loved the mailplane pilot.
More kids
with the mailman.
The poor
little airplane that could. A 1949 all metal Luscombe carrying a
foot of snow outside our hangar in McGrath.
Lockeed A-10
with Provincetown - Boston Airways painted on it's side at Stony River
in 1979.
PBA Lockheed A-10 Interior.
Lockheed
A-10 Cockpit.
PBA A-10
awaiting it's next job.
River
settlement on the Yukon.
Original
Russian Orthodox Church. Note the cross on the roof, (from
the 1800's).
Russian
Orthodox Church well preserved inside and out.
Stony
River strip. Wide and long, but full of loose gravel.
Stony River
Sign
at Telida giving the mileage to the nearest Wall Drug Store in South Dakota.
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